In 2021, Miriam González, a 35-year-old from Murcia, Spain, went to the doctor because she was bleeding from her breast. She was told to relax: everything was normal. But in 2024, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. And, shortly afterward, she discovered it was metastatic, at stage four.
Suit filed in US alleges chatbot told Alice Carrier, 24, ‘maybe this is just the end’ as she struggled with suicidal thoughts
A Canadian mother sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, in US court on Thursday, alleging that ChatGPT encouraged her daughter to kill herself. The lawsuit is the latest in a slew accusing the company of failing to address dangerous conversations between users and the company’s chatbot.
Kristie Carrier said in a lawsuit filed in San Francisco state court that her daughter, Alice, told ChatGPT about her suicidal ideations more than a dozen times leading up to her death but that OpenAI’s safety systems never flagged the conversations for human review or terminated them.
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KUALA LUMPUR, June 7 — OpenAI is preparing a major redesign of ChatGPT aimed at turning the platform into a “superapp” with stronger coding features, AI agents and partner services, according to the Financial Times.
Reuters, citing the FT report, said the planned overhaul comes as OpenAI reorganises its business to focus more heavily on enterprise customers and compete more directly with rival Anthropic.
Reuters said it could not immediately verify the FT report, while OpenAI did not immediately respond to its request for comment.
The FT reported that OpenAI’s coding product Codex is expected to receive greater prominence and resources, with changes due to be introduced in the coming weeks through updates to ChatGPT’s website and mobile apps.
The report said ChatGPT’s interface is being redesigned with new prompts and features to direct users towards coding tools, image generation and partner services such as Canva and Booking.com.
The FT also reported that most Codex users are paying customers, while two million businesses currently account for about 40 per cent of OpenAI’s revenue, with the company expecting that share to rise to 50 per cent by the end of the year.
OpenAI said earlier this year that ChatGPT had more than 900 million weekly active users and had crossed 50 million consumer subscribers, according to Reuters.
Reuters reported in May that OpenAI was preparing a confidential US initial public offering filing in the coming weeks, although chief executive Sam Altman has said the company is not focused on timing and will go public when it makes sense.
Facts to check before publication: Whether OpenAI has since issued a response; whether the FT report has further details on rollout timing; and whether the user and subscriber figures remain the latest available. — Reuters
OpenAI has announced that images generated with ChatGPT, Codex, and its API will include C2PA metadata and a SynthID watermark -- the two leading protocols in identifying AI images.
By 2030, water consumption linked to the use of artificial intelligence will be equivalent to that of 1.3 billion people in sub-Saharan Africa, while it will require nearly three times the annual energy consumption of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nigeria — countries with a combined population of 650 million. In terms of carbon emissions, these could reach 400 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalent, comparable to the United Kingdom’s total emissions. The operation of AI will require 14,500 square kilometres of land, including infrastructure and supply chains — twice the size of the Jakarta metropolitan area, a megacity with more than 32 million inhabitants, or 10 times that of Mexico City (21 million).
On the first day of Cannes, artificial intelligence already sparked a debate between two jury members, Demi Moore and Paul Laverty. From that moment, the festival and the market running alongside it diverged in their reactions to the digital tool: while Cannes imposes limits on its use (even though one of its sponsors, which joined in 2026, is Meta, owner of Meta AI) and artists warn of its dangers, the market saw a rush of Chinese films made with AI and a handful of Western projects embracing its use. Filmmakers will be wary, but the industry has rushed to exploit AI.
Eliezer Yudkowsky, 46, and Nate Soares, 37, are convinced that if artificial intelligence (AI) systems continue to improve, they will eventually surpass human capabilities. And when that happens, humanity will go extinct. They argue this could occur in a matter of months or within a decade. The title of their latest book is blunt: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All (Little, Brown & Co).
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